It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.

On 27 April 1962 two members of the Nation of Islam are questioned by Los Angeles police while unloading suitcases from a car in front of their mosque. A scuffle occurs and after gun fire 7 mosque members were wounded with one man shot dead by the police.

He has currently written two books
. I read the first one "Chain of Title". It was about how the mortgage crisis in post 2009 was largely a creation of the Banking Financial systems gutting the old property title networks and screwing the mortgage owners every chance they could get, with help from politicians who looked the other way or played dumb.

Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 14h 13m 26s

The chutzpah

After 4 deaths against US Government buildings in Libya in 2012, the Republicans screamed and set up a House Investigation lead by South Carolina Representative Trey Gaudy that wasted tax dollars and closed shop right after the November 2016 election.

After more than 90,000 American deaths and counting from the Covid mismanagement and the precipitous economic meltdown, what do these same Republicans do?

They bemoan how the Democrats are playing politics.

4 deaths at a foreign location half-way around the world versus more than 90,000 deaths in 3 months right here in the USA.

Really?

A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.

Apple has put together a site that allows you to track the mobility trends since 13 January 2020 : Walking, Driving, or using Transit.

Click here. The site allows you to choose by nation, city, and county. Hella cool.

Here's the San Francisco - Bay Area :

Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 7h 34m 7s

Well look at that

For two months, President Trump repeatedly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a safe and effective treatment for coronavirus, asking would-be patients “What the hell do you have to lose?”

Growing evidence shows that, for many, the answer is their lives.

Clinical trials, academic research and scientific analysis indicate that the danger of the Trump-backed drug is a significantly increased risk of death for certain patients. Evidence showing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating covid-19 has been scant. Those two developments pushed the Food and Drug Administration to warn against the use of hydroxychloroquine outside of a hospital setting last month, just weeks after it approved an emergency use authorization for the drug.

Alarmed by a growing cache of data linking the anti-malaria drug to serious cardiac problems, some drug safety experts are now calling for even more forceful action by the government to discourage its use. Several have called for the FDA to revoke its emergency use authorization, given hydroxychloroquine’s documented risks....

Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, told Congress on Thursday that political pressure forced “dozens of federal scientists” to spend a harried 48-hour stretch rushing to put together a protocol for approving hydroxychloroquine for widespread use in covid-19 patients.

In his whistleblower complaint, Bright said he was removed from his position in part because of his reluctance to promote the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, because they had not been tested and deemed safe for treating covid-19.

...Yogen Kanthi, assistant professor in the division of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan, said that it has been clear that the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin — used to treat bacterial infections — could lead to cardiac arrhythmias, which cause the heart to beat irregularly or too fast or slow. Many patients hospitalized for covid-19 had underlying cardiovascular disease that put them at higher risk for arrhythmias, “so it shouldn’t be surprising we saw an increase in death,” he said.

...A study of Veterans Affairs patients hospitalized with the coronavirus found no benefit and higher death rates among those taking hydroxychloroquine, researchers said last month.
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More than 27 percent of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine died, and 22 percent of those treated with the combination therapy died, compared with an 11.4 percent death rate in those not treated with the drugs, the study said.

...Doctors in Brazil stopped a trial of chloroquine, closely related to hydroxychloroquine, after 11 patients died. They reported in JAMA Open Network on April 24 that in 81 patients, those who took high doses of the drug had a 3.6-fold higher death rate as compared to a lower dose group.

Yet you have protests touting Hydroxychloriquine and blaming the media like there is some kind of media/deep-state conspiracy holding back this awesome drug Trump was talking up because he knows people who would make a lot of money. Science steps aside when money is in your eyes, and you have media outlets like Fox News who will gladly peddle your gibberish into the minds of unfortunate citizens. The greedy love to manipulate the ignorant.

Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 16h 23m 21s

This is how easily COVID can spread

From one person, in a confined buffet-style restaurant after only 30 minutes, the spread was everywhere, and literally everyone had an equally good chance of exposure.

Later on the segment discusses wearing masks in restaurants. My question: how do you put food in your mouth with a mask on? When people talk while wearing masks, air and particles escape out of the side.

Some of the public are unfortunately delusional believing that rebooting the economy is simply a matter of just "ending the lock-down."

Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 16h 7m 23s

Response to a troll, episode 10 billion

They never go away. I know my effect is nil, but sometimes I can't help myself.

Here

Troll:They chose leftist ideology long ago and now they are reaping the consequences. California should not get bailed out.

Let california go bankrupt and hopefully the effort to split it up into separate states gets a boost.

ginardo napoli(me):Fuck you. When revenues fall and expenses go up that has nothing to do with "leftist" policies. When you have an economic contraction that devastates tax revenue because of the contraction of overall economic revenue, that has nothing to do with leftist policies.

When you own a business and your revenue drops 50% because of external economic factors, that has nothing to do with the efficiency in which the business (or government) originally operated.

Republicans and non-leftist live here too. Why would you want to dismantle the 7th top economic region in the world? That makes no sense, and is only suggested by morbid plutocrats (or the trolls who work for them) because they want to destroy a functional economic region merely so they can turn California into the banana republics they have already turned some of the States in the Southeast, who have to be subsidized by tax inflows from the Federal government tax dollars in order to remain viable. Meanwhile, California pays out more in Federal Tax revenues than it receives. Which is fine, thats' why this is the "United" states of America, but when you self-righteously push these memes of letting the states go bankrupt, the implication is that we are no longer "united" at all.

What part of "united" do you not understand? This should not become politicized, but that's what people like you do. You hide your real agenda behind some concocted degenerate meme that discounts the reality of history and actual facts, because the plutocrats who own you (whether by choice, or otherwise) need to get rid of democracy and just implant their political theocracy with chosen politicians.

God I miss the Rockefeller and Romney Republicans, because with unfortunately rare exception these days, the modern Republicans have to orchestrate a framed hissy fit in order to gain any traction or leverage against the truth. When confronted with the cold hard truth, all of their hissy fits wither into oblivion, or they splinter into varying degrees of utter hypocrisy.

But in the end, all of them do a version of PDB ... "They Promise everything, Deliver nothing, and Blame everyone else."

Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 15h 43m 22s

Hoy shit part 3

My state of California went from a 21.5 billion dollar surplus with a rainy day fund of 16 billion, into a possible 54 billion dollar deficit in just 3 months.

Here is Governor Gavin Newsome explaining this today.

Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 8h 54m 24s

Another COVID app

Click here for a colored coded map of the United States COVID cases. You can select from 7 choices of data, and pick a date for counties and states.